[news] The Greening of Venezuela

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In the past fifteen months the government has begun to redistribute 
uncultivated land from private estates or public lands to poor peasants and 
landless labourers. In a repeat of the agrarian reform programmes carried out 
decades ago in several Latin American countries, some 2.2 million hectares (5.5 
million acres) has already been distributed to 116,000 families organised in 
cooperatives. But the Venezuelan agrarian reform goes beyond satisfying peasant 
land hunger and alleviating poverty. It is based as far as possible on organic 
practices and is intended as the foundation stone of an entirely new social and 
economic model, oriented towards self-sufficiency, sustainability and 
"endogenous development".

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/1/145948/6670